Siege of Warsaw (1655)

The siege of Warsaw, which occurred in September 1655 - the siege of the times of the Swedish flood in Poland. The Swedish king Charles X Gustav, together with the rebellious Lithuanian hetman Janusz Radziwiłł, laid siege to almost unprotected Warsaw after fleeing the Polish king Jan II Casimir. After several days of building the stairs, they attacked the southern walls and killed the rest of the garrison of Warsaw. After the occupation of the capital, the army went to Krakow.